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THE SUN, NEWBERRY, S. C„ FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1938 -Weekly News Review Failure of Democratic Purge Gives Republicans New Fear Politics If FrankUn Roosevelt ever planned to “purge” his Democratic party of undesirables, he now knows the purge has failed. On the presi dential black list may have been Iowa’s GiUette, Nevada’s McCarran, Colorado’s Adams, and Missouri’s Clark. By last week these New Deal haters were either renominated or assured of winning their state pri maries at the expense of administra tion favorites. News of purge failure has recent ly sent the most dour conservative into ecstasies. For once, it appears, Franklin Roosevelt’s domination over Jhe party is at ebb tide. But last week a few foes began thinking instead of effervescing: Is purge failure helping untangle badly twisted United States political lines? Decidedly the contrary. Is purge failure eliminating Franklin Roosevelt as a third termer? Prob ably not. Originally the purge idea sought to transform the Democrat party into an instrument of coherent lib eralism, implying formation of an equally coherent conservative party on the other side. But when con gress convenes next winter tire Unit ed States will see instead a hodge podge of multi-colored political thought from which little but bicker ing can be expected. Deeply tanned from his 20-day fishing trip to tropical Pacific wa ters, Franklin Roosevelt was back in his 48 states last week, still mum about third term rumors that have kept newsmen busy since he left. Of all rumors, most thought-provok ing was that purge failure robs the President of party control, robs him also of the right to name a succes sor in 1940. Not willing to be robbed, enthusiastic New Dealer Roosevelt would rather run himself than pass the mantle to a less ardent New Dealer. Kentucky Blue Grass politics was red hot as Kentucky prepared to choose a Democratic senator. At Jackson, Former Sheriff Lee Combs and his brother attended a rally for their own faction, then walked brazenly into a rally of opposition forces. When the smoke cleared, Lee Combs was shot dead. A few minutes later his father organized kinfolk to search for William Combs, who was no relative but the alleged slayer. KENTUCKY’S ALBEN BARKLEY It urns surely a fine day. Said Police Chief A. S. Sizmore: “I’m a Republican so I’m not on either side. They were all het up from politicin’.” Two days later Kentucky went to the polls. At Versailles, Gov. A. B. “Happy” Chandler muttered, “Down the hatch” as (he chivalrously voted for his opponent, Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley. At Paducah, Al- ben Barkley deposited his ballot, glanced at the skies and predicted a record vote. By midnight it appeared that Happy Chandler should have voted for himself. “Dear Alben,” with presidential blessing, was renomi nated and political theorists tried to figure out what it meant. Foreign Since 1931, when Japan marched into Manchuria, Tokyo and Moscow have been “on the brink of war.” Last week the# appeared to be fight ing two wars: In one, at the iso lated Russian-Manchukuan-Korean frontier nobody knew who was win ning. In the other, being waged in the Moscow office of Soviet Foreign Maxim Litvinoff, it appeared that Russia had the upper hand. Amidst a barrage of incidents, communiques and curt notes, Asia’s two powers were attempting to set tle ownership of a shell-pocked hill near the village of Changkitfeng. Russia-Jap hostilities in this sec tor date back to 1931 when Japan marched into Manchuria and looked longingly at land patrolled by Rus sia’s autonomous Siberian army. But not until mid-July this year did the five-year “secret war” break into the open. Since then both pow ers have attacked and counter at tacked for days on end, moving troops, artillery and planes to little Changkufeng. Already tired of one war (see be low), Japan was anxious to avoid . another. Finally Ambassador Ma.- moru Shigemitsu at Moscow re ceived word to open peace negotia tions. Last week it appeared proud, stubborn Japan would have to eat crow if she wanted peace with prouder, more stubborn Russia. Muttering that “the time has come MAXIM LITVINOFF “The time has come . ..” to terminate these endless inci dents,” Foreign Minister Litvinoff matched Tokyo’s proposals with an even better set: (1) Immediate cessation of hos tilities, with mutual withdrawal behind a fixed line. (2) That line to be determined by the Russ-China treaty of June 26, 1886. (3) Appointment of a bilateral commission, two Russians, one Manchukuan, one Jap, to negotiate for redemarcation of the line on basis of the 1886 treaty. While Japan boasted after two weeks that 1,500 Russ soldiers had been killed and wounded against 180 on her own side, two tattered Soviet deserters walked into her Siberian camp to air their grievances against Moscow. They deserted because their fa thers, well-to-do Kulak farmers, had been heavily taxed, heavily op pressed in the Soviet drive for col lective agriculture. “Our slogan is defend the fatherland of liberty,” one said, “but how can we soldiers defend such a system when the cows, horses and even their bams are taken away.” To Japan it looked like Russia’s poor Siberian administration was her ally. • Last week weary Japanese troops were still more than 100 miles down the flooded Yangtze river from their goal, Nanking, long since deserted by the Chinese government. While defending troops claimed the invad ers had been repelled in battle after battle, crafty Japs were evidently resorting to brains instead of brawn to capture another part of China. In the past Manchuria and Peking governments were undermined by palm-rubbing Tokyo agents and dis gruntled Chinese officials. Result in each case has been a puppet state, completely divorced from Chi na. Last week at peaceful Canton, only a few miles from Britain’s Hongkong, came reports of secret negotiations to sway South China from the central government. Promising to prevent recurrence of disastrous bombings which left Canton a bloody shambles last month, Jap agents would set up an independent government closely al lied to Tokyo. Meanwhile Japan refused to stop her bombing attacks on Canton. For two successive days last week war planes swooped down with their car goes of death, finally striking within 400 yards of the foreign settlement where thousands had taken refuge. Next day Canton’s Catholic cathe dral was struck while hundreds cow ered in terror within. Miscellany Back to London last week from darkest Africa came Missionary John Harris with a strange tale. His story: In Bechuanaland lives Ra- monolwana Senan, believed to be 140 years old yet still in good health and boasting all but one tooth. He has a son more than 100 years old, and a daughter 16. • Twenty thousand bathers at New York’s Rockaway beach sought re lief from sticky weather last week. In the distance were unimportant rumblings of thunder. Suddenly the air was splintered by a bolt of lightning that zig-zagged 300 feet down the beach, killing three, felling hundreds. Next day investigators wondered if a huge steel bridge, passing almost iihmediately over the beach, might have drawn the freak bolt. • When she was first launched, Eng land’s proud Queen Mary was also queen of the Atlantic. Then came the French Normandie to set a west ward passage record of 3 days, 22 hours, 52 minutes. Last week her powerful engines churned the Queen Mary to a new record, clipping 1 hour, 14 minutes off the Norman die’s mark. • Fondled like the museum piece it is, Douglas (Wrong Way) Corri gan’s $900 transatlantic airplane was unloaded in Manhattan last week. People At Callander, Ont., Olivia Dionne’s famous five children failed to ap pear before their daily tourist audi ence. Dr. Roy Dafoe, who has guid ed the four-year-old quintuplets since birth, reported they suffered from upset stomachs. Next day Pappa Dionne worried publicly oyer Emilie, who had taken no nourish ment for 24 hours. • Two days after former cinema actress Pearl White died in Paris, Warner Oland of “Charlie Chan” fame succumbed in his native Swe den of bronchial pneumonia. • At Hammond, La., Governor Richard W. Leche poured coffee, served sandwiches to pickets sur rounding a box factory. Religion On the next day . . . when they heard that Jesus was coming . . . took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet Him, and cried. Hosanna: Blessed is the king of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord. Thus wrote St. John in Biblical days. Since then his words have been unchanged, but last week American clergymen began study ing the Bible as rewritten under Adolph Hitler’s direction to conform with Germany’s Nazi ideology. Said the Nazified St. John: “Then they took green branches, went to meet him and cried: HEIL to him that comes in the name of God. HEIL to thee, thou shalt be our king.” Eliminated are all references to sin, heaven and the Hebrew proph ets, for the Nazi heaven is now to be found in Germany alone. Domestic That Pennsylvania’s Sen. James J. Davis has beeri more successful with U. S. Moose than his Tennessee Valley authority investigating com mittee, was admitted last week. From Washington to Knoxville, in the heart of TVA’s far-flung power empire, the committee has dug for facts, rumors and figures to estab lish why ousted TVA Administrator Arthur Morgan raised such a hulla baloo last winter. The committee’s aim, said Davis, was to find the “real, true ‘yard stick’ cost of power and the total amount of money going into TVA development.” Last week, after spending more than half the $50,000 appropriation, Chairman Davis decided 85 per cent of his rummaging was concerned with uninteresting auditing and ac counting. Named to investigate for the investigating committee was a private investigator, M. C. Conick, whose personal headache TVA now becomes. Labor The nasty word “Communism” hung like a spectre last week before the eyes of C. I. O. Mogul John L. Lewis. At Detroit and Los Angeles his henchmen were having trouble. Ex-Preacher Homer Martin, who heads 375,000 members of the C. I. O. United Automobile Workers, found himself marked for liquida tion by the four vice presidents he recently found guilty of consorting with Communists. Their charge: That Martin himself has been con sorting with President Jay Love- stone of the Independent Communist Labor league.* To bewildered C. I. O. workers it appeared that U. A. W.’s trouble was simply a fight between Stalinist Communists and Lovestone Commu nists, each willing to fight for their own beliefs no matter how many unions are destroyed. Standing on the sidelines at Detroit awaiting the opportune moment was A. F. of L.’c Francis Dillon who headed the U. A. W. when it was a respectable Labor Federation affiliate. Meanwhile at Los Angeles, four C. I. O. unions voted to withdraw from Radical Harry Bridges’ Indus trial Union council, charging he had brought the body under Communist control. Aviation Since its birth shortly after the World war, U. S. commercial avia tion has been bounced back and forth by a dozen government agen cies, has suffered from repudiated agreements and constantly chang ing administration. Worst low was the government’s repudiation of air mail contracts five years ago, an experiment that ended in headaches for all. Last winter congress established a Civil Aeronautics authority to manage commercial aviation per manently and sensibly. Its job: To administer air mail contracts, su pervise commercial air lines and private fliers and study aviation safety. Last week the new authority took over its job, two weeks before the act goes into effect. As Chairman Elmer J. Noble of Greenwich, Conn., walked into his office for the first time he hoped to regulate avia tion as successfully as another pol icy-forming board, the Interstate Commerce commission, has super vised railroading. Sports Several weeks ago a young Chi cago broker, Fred Tuerk, bet his partner half a $30,000 plantation he couldn’t play 144 holes of golf from dawn to dusk without going over 95 on any 18 holes. Partner J.‘ Smith Ferebee took him up, start ing out one morning last week. By nightfall all 144 holes were played at an average of 86 strokes per 18 holes. Next day Broker Ferebee, still golf hungry, played again to “unlimber” after his ordeaL NATIONAL AFFAIRS Reviewed by CARTER FIELD • T.V.A. investigation flat tens out as congressional committee fails to get excited over either side's charges ... Sentiment grows for one-man control of board. KNOXVILLE, TENN.—Conviction that there is no great merit in the charges of David E. Lilienthal and Harcourt A. Morgan that Arthur E. Morgan, deposed chairman of the Tennessee Valley authority, attempt ed to “sabotage” the government’s case in a lawsuit against the utilities, or was “tampering” with witnesses or seeking to bring about a decision adverse to the government, is al most general in the special congres sional committee investigating the TVA. Conviction that Arthur E. Mor gan’s charges against Lilienthal and Harcourt Morgan are not very hot is also apparent from conversations with committee members. Specifically, the committee does think the authority took very little pains to protect the federal treasury when it was paying $680,000 for 550 acres of phosphate land which had been bought a short time before for $125,000. This was one of Mor gan’s points of attack. ARTHUR E. MORGAN His charges were not very hot. When it comes to Morgan’s charge that Lilienthal and Harcourt Mogan virtually ♦ ignored him, sought to hamstring him in various ways, and held meetings with pre arranged programs of which he was ignorant, the committee members admit privately that Arthur E. Mor gan himself is the best witness for the other two directors on that. After listening to A. E. Morgan at length many of the committee mem bers felt that they would have done almost anything in reason to avoid the long drawn-out discussions that would inevitably have resulted had no way been discovered to short cir cuit the chairman. In fact, after listening to all three directors at tedious length, most committee members find it in their hearts to sympathize with all of them for having to put up with the others, and to understand why the simple solution of allocating the functions so that there need be few er discussions in the board itself was adopted. It was this separation of the func tions of the TVA into three almost water - tight compartments, of course, which led to much of the trouble. Arthur E. Morgan had picked the other two directors. He was the first named, he was the chairman, and he had recommend ed the other two to the President. So he felt a keen sense of respon sibility. Further, he is a very meticulous person. He does not “yes” any body who wants to agree with him. He does not like to make decisions until he has studied a question for days, talked about it for weeks, and called in three or four outside groups of experts. He is that sort of person. Magnificent for inquiry on some question of great impor tance but dubious soundness, A. E. Morgan could easily become very tiresome as an associate. So the committee is inclined to laugh off most of the charges, pro and con. A strong disposition is developing among members of the congression al investigating committee to rec ommend that control of the project, in the future, be placed in the hands of one man instead of a three-man board. There is also a disposition to rec ommend that in any future organi zations of similar type which may be set up the same idea of one-man control be followed. In recent questions Representa tive Charles A. Wolverton of New Jersey called the attention of Lilien thal to the success which attended this idea when Gen. George W. Goethals was building the Panama canal. Until he was given supreme command, made virtually a czar, by Theodore Roosevelt, then Presi dent, the Panama job was a mess. It was almost as bad in its personal squabbles as TVA has been under the bickerings of Lilienthal and A. E. and H. A. Morgan. Lilienthal | Lilienthal did not agree with this suggestion—on the stand. But com mittee members took his answers with a grain of salt. Obviously it would be in poor taste for Lilienthal to espouse publicly the idea of one-man rule. It would be too much like his telling a congressional com mittee what the congress, and the President, ought to do. It just might not happen to please the President. On the matter of the General Ac counting office, Lilienthal was quite outspoken about what congress ought to do. He objected to Former Comp troller John R. Mc Call’s "playing poli tics” with TVA two years ago. What he really objects to is the present power of the comptroller’s of fice to audit expend- itures before they are made, instead of afterward. But on the one-man control of TVA it was obvious that Lilienthal had not taken this up with the Pres ident. Moreover, for him to say that might have resulted in his trad ing a reality for a shadow. At the present time, and in fact since the fall of 1933, Lilienthal has had the substance. Harcourt Mor gan has voted for every move Lilien thal made. In return Lilienthal has voted with H. A. Morgan, with A. E. Morgan always in the minority. H. A. Morgan was perfectly happy to let Lilienthal have his way in re turn for a free hand with fertilizer and the land-grant colleges. To have stated on the witness stand that he liked the idea of a one-man board would have en dangered this now ripened and set alliance. It might plague Lilien thal considerably when that third member of the TVA is appointed to take the place of the ousted chair man, A. E. Morgan. Nevertheless, committee mem bers are interested in the idea of one-man control. They are not sure the bickering they have listened to almost to the limit of their endur ance will not be resumed if and when “another strong-minded man” is appointed to the TVA board. Explanation of So Much Third Term Talk Explanation of so much third-term talk is the growing realization of the New Dealers that not one of their number seems likely to “make the grade” at the Democratic National convention in 1940. President Roose velt himself would have been satis fied if he could have gotten Robert H. Jackson started. But Jim Far ley, Ed Flynn of the Bronx, and others with real followings in New York would not give Jackson the chance to make a record as gover nor of New York. So the crowd around Roosevelt that wants his pol icies carried on, and each of whom wants to retain his own place in the sun, has come to the conclusion that Roosevelt must make the “sac rifice.” A very important factor in the third-term situation is that the con servative Democrats are getting stronger—seem more likely to con trol a lot of big delegations in 1940. Roosevelt can have New York’s del egation for himself, but could not deliver it against the wishes of the men who balked him on Jackson, es pecially if Governor Herbert H. Leh man agreed with them. The mere fact that Lehman, opposed to court packing and alarmed about federal spending, is assured of the Demo cratic nomination for senator is the signpost of this situation. C. I. O. Face* Unfriendly Congres* in January C. I. O. will face a much more unfriendly congress in January—a congress that will be all set to revise the Wagner Labor Relations act in some essential particulars. No drive to accomplish what many employ ers would like to see will get any where, but the act is apt to be re vised as the American Federation of Labor would like, despite any efforts Roosevelt may make to stop it. Sentiment is building up too strong against the C. I.. O. and against the National Labor Relations board for alleged partiality to C. I. O. <j. I. O. will face the new congress with an almost unbroken record of defeats whenever it appealed to the voters in behalf of candidates, or against candidates except where the American Federation of Labor happened to be on the same side, as is the case in the campaign for Sen ator Alben W. Barkley. William Green happened to be on the win ning side in every fight so far where his organization has opposed the C. I. O., starting off with Pennsylvania and Iowa. One of the reasons most of the political dopesters figure Ellison D. (Cotton Ed) Smith is almost sure of renomination, although he was high up on the purge list for having opposed the President on the court and other issues, is that A. F. of L. is fighting for him. Incidentally, the “purge” has narrowed down to Sen ators Walter F. George in Georgia and Millard E. Tydings in Mary land, so far as any positive results are within the realm of reason. Cer tainty of renomination of Senator Alva B. Adams in Colorado, added to the list of insurgent victories achieved and certain to come, makes that pretty sure. Under the Colorado law Adams’ opponent did not get enough votes in his party convention to get his name on th* primary ballot. « Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service. WHO’S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON "VIEW YORK.—The playing fields of Eton have been given due credit for Britain’s power and dura bility. We seem to have overlooked the playing fields Army to Ape of West Point. A Strategy sweeping techni- Of Football dal reorganization of the army is news this week. It might not have come off had it not been for a cer tain incident on the West Point foot ball field. Gen. Malin Craig, chief of staff, is the reorganizer. He is preparing the army for the open game—swiftness, mobility, adaptive ness, as in modern football. It was an instant of inspired open football, back in the juggernaut days of the guards back and the side-line buck, that saved young Malin Craig for the army and the current reordering of tactics and equipment. Just before the game with Trinity college in 1897, the West Point scholastic command had decided to retire Cadet Craig. Of an ancient army line, with many relatives in the service, he had been visiting aronnd army posts. His marks had suf fered. The ax was to fall just after the game. Craig was a brilliant backfield player, but somewhat given to un planned maneuvers. Carrying the ball at a critical turn of the game, he lost his interference in a broken field. He shook off several tacklers, but, somewhere around the 35-yard line, a stone wall of Trinity play ers loomed ahead. Ducking a hurtling body, scarcely checking his stride, he booted a per- . feet field goal— Young Craig winning the game, Boot* Goal with appropriate On the Run Frank Merriwell trimmings. Of course, the faculty couldn’t fire a hero. The ax was put away, a tutor was found, and Cadet Craig finished creditably—to establish the open game in the American army. He was a baseball star, also, and old Pop Anson tried to sign him for the Chicago National team. Born in St. Joseph, Mo., he was the grandson of a Civil war general. His father was a major and he has a son recently out of West Point. In the Spanish-American war, the Philippines, France and in minor cnixups, he was a quick thinker and a self-starter, heavily garlanded from the first and known as a “pro gressive” tactician. * • • A FEW years ago, Richard Strauss was in trouble with the Nazis. The libretto of his opera, “Tfie Silent Woman,” had been writ ten by Stefan Strau** /» Zweig, a “non- Rettored to Aryan.” The op- Nazi Favor era was a fl °P 811(1 Herr Strauss was ousted as president of the Reich Culture chamber and chairman of the Federation of German Compos ers. He is now restored to. official favor. His librettist for his new op era, “Der Fridenstag,” is a cer tified Aryan, Joseph Gregor, a Viennese poet, and its world pre mier at Munich is a brilliant success, with new garlands for the seventy-five-year-old com poser So apparently all is forgiven, and the traditional rebel of the musical world is rebelling no longer. He had decided to save the world at any cost, but turning sixty, he con cluded he was doing well enough by merely keeping out of jail. When “Salome” was presented in 1905, puritanical New York was shocked, and the Salome^ Wo* mere idea ,of its Cau*e of being given here Famou* Row caused a row. Its presentation i n New York in 1921 was taken calmly. Strauss’ “Murky Psychographies,” as the critics called them, didn’t bring any riot calls. These muddy phantasmagorias of his earlier years got him into many battles, but he settled down to writing and —being a good business man—to money making. Once, when he was quarreling with Berlin, he was asked if he would play there. "I would play on a manure pile if they pay me for it,” he said. He is no kin of the famous waltz family of Vienna. In mel low and beery old Bavaria, his father was a horn-blower and his mother a brewer’s daughter. He has prospered through his later years, the owner of a cas tle in Vienna and an estate in Bavaria. In 1930, German cities were fight ing for him es their leading citizen, with chambers of commerce com peting and making offers. Then came the brief eclipse over the “non-Aryan” associations, and now the full effulgence of his restored career. .0 Consolidated News Features. WNU Service. Oilcloth Shelf Edging For Kitchen Windows By RUTH WYETH SPEARS \X7E ARE indebted to one of the ’ ' readers of this column for this idea. She was so enthusiastic about the book, SEWING, for the Home Decorator, offered with these article? that she wrote a nice letter of appreciation and also described this clever idea of her own for making her kitchen gay. All of us know how often kitchen curtains must be laundered. Yet, THUMB TACK! Cl ROD HEMMED* ENDS AND BRASS RINGS we like interesting windows in this room as well as any other. Well, here is the answer with the mini mum of work. The curtains themselves are as easy tc wash and iron as a dish towel—no frills, just hems. But don’t make them too skimpy. A full width of 35-inch-wide material is not too wide. Cut away the sel vage at the front edge and hem it with a 1-inch hem. Use a 2- inch hem at the bottom. This gives the curtains body so they will have smart crisp lines. The cas ing at the top should be just wide enough for the curtain rod. And don’t forget to allow for shrink age if the material is not pre shrunken. If figured material is used, choose colors that will harmonize with the shelf edging along the top of the window and the tie- backs as shown in the sketch. Th* thumb tacks used for the shell edging may also add color inter est. NOTE: . Every Homemaker should have a copy of Mrs. Spears' book, SEWING, for the Home Dec orator. Forty-eight pages of df rections for making slip-covers and curtains; dressing tables; lampshades and many other use ful articles for the home. Price .25 cents postpaid (coin preferred). Ask for Book 1, and address Mrs. Spears, 210 S. Desplaines St., Chi cago, HI. On the Highway —v— Seme of the most important rales for safe driving: Never drive fast over a road yon don’t know like a book. Learn what you can expect of your car. Always expect the worst. If there’s a tree beside the road ( ahead, figure a car may come from behind it. If there’s a house near by, a child may ran across the road there. If there’s a parked car, count on its cut ting suddenly onto the pave ment. Signal your intentions to all persons who may be affected by your acts. Get rid of WORMS in children or adults. An enormous appe tite, itching of the nose, grind ing of teeth in sleep, eating dirt or clay are symptoms that may indicate worms. The best medicine to drive them out is Dr. Peery’s “Dead Shot” Ver mifuge. 50c a bottle at drug gists or Wright’s Pill Co., 100 Gold St., New York, N. Y. SMALL SIZE 60c LARGE SIZE $1.20 m j Brings RHEUMA NEURITIS and LU Try a feattfa .. Why AT ALL GOOD DRUG STORES WNU—7 38—38 WATCH the Specials You can depend on the spe cial sales the merchants oi our town announce in the columnsof this paper.They mean money saving to our readers. It always pays to patronize the merchants who advertise. They are not afraid of their mer chandise or their prices.